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The Deaf Seniors of America will have their Conference and activities prior to the Conference in Baltimore from August 21st through August 27th this year. If you pay for combo tickets before July 31st, you can save money.

Signing Time Instructor Christine Fitzgerald is proud to announce that Emmy-nominated Rachel Coleman, host of Signing Time, will be performing for children and families in the Hollywood Hills this spring. The Signing Time Foundation Community Event on May 11th will be held at 2:30 p.m. at The Hall of Liberty. The VIP event starts at […]

The Douglas Tilden 5K/10K Walk / Run for Deaf Humanity will be held in San Francisco at the Golden Gate Park on Sunday, June 2, 2013. If you sign up for the event by May 31st, the registration is $31.00 for adults and $16.00 for teenagers under the age of 18. If you pay at […]

The Deaf Business Symposium will be held by DCARA in Berkeley on April 19 – April 21, 2013. It will cover various topics such as networking, goal setting, business law, and negotiating. The registration fee is $90.00.

The California School for the Deaf at Fremont is presenting a play called “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” The high school drama club will perform this play on May 2, May 3, and May 4th. Some of the shows will be voice interpreted.

An ASL movie called “Lake Windfall” will be shown at the Phoenix Association of the Deaf on May 3 and May 4th. You can save money on tickets for the movie if you order them by April 29th. The movie will be shown at 1545 West Osborn Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85015.

California State University at Northridge (CSUN) will have their sixth Sign n’ Run Festival on April 21, 2013. The fundraiser from the National Center on Deafness (NCOD) gathers money for student scholarships and programs.

Deaf Spring Break is coming to Hotel Hunting Beach at Huntington Beach on Thursday, March 28, 2013. The California School for the Deaf in Riverside (CSDR) is having their Happy Days Reunion Car Show on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Entrance fees are $10.00 a person. They will have a pancake breakfast, vendors, music, and games. […]

In the past, C.J. Jones went to a public school in St. Louis, and he was told he was not allowed to sign. He recently performed at a public school in Temecula, and the people accepted the fact he used sign language. After the performance, the ASL Club at the school had a workshop. […]

The Los Angeles Club of the Deaf (LACD) meets on the third Saturday of every month for social activities and games. They meet at 2222 Lavernia Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041. The club opens at 5 p.m. for socializing and the games start at 6 or 6:30. The card games include dingo, king freeze, 500-600, […]

Now that I’ve gotten used to making my own fresh vegetable juice, I’m thinking of bread. I recall reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle a few months ago and coming across a passage by the author’s husband (Steven Hopp) who makes a fresh loaf practically everyday.

He says, “I know you’ve got one around somewhere: maybe in the closet. Or on the kitchen counter, so dusty nobody remembers it’s there. A bread machine.”

A bread machine? Nope, don’t have one in the closet or on the counter or anywhere. I’m lucky if I can find a spatula in our kitchen. During a party this spring, I was talking with the host’s mother. She’s in her late 80s and makes her own bread. I told her I wanted to learn so I could make homemade pizza dough, whole wheat, pumpernickel, etc.

“But I don’t have a bread machine,” I said.

She practically fell out of her chair laughing. I guess if you really know how to make bread the old fashioned way, you knead the dough. By hand. For a long time.

“You have to feel the dough to make sure it’s right,” she said.

Call me crazy, but kneading dough by hand actually sounds fun. I think I’ll try it (although I have no idea what it’s supposed to “feel” like, so I’ll have to wing that part). In the meantime, I’ll keep my eye out at garage sales for someone else’s barely-used, dusty bread machine.

As few weeks ago, we had a substitute teacher in yoga class. He had us do a series of poses where we moved from one warrior position to another to another then back to the first one. And so on.

The Dance of the Warrior, he called it.

The dictionary defines warrior as “one who is engaged in or experienced in battle.”

The battle in yoga, I suppose, is with the anxious, unstable, and not-so-Zen side of myself.

Can I learn to stay centered in the face of fear?
Can I find my balance when life seems to be throwing me in loops?
Can I take action with insight and compassion?

In other words, can I find the way of the peaceful warrior?

As I moved through the series, my muscles trembled, my body wobbled, and my breath labored. At least, part of the time it was like that. At other times, I was calm(er) and stead(ier) and moving in rhythm. Slowly, I’m learning the dance.

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